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    After reading, “SATs Help Colleges Make Smarter Admissions Call” by Gaston Caperton. I found the article to be biased in favor of the SATs. Considering the author is the president of College Board, which owns and develops the SAT, his writing obviously contains bias, and maybe the reason why the article had a one-sided perspective, that offered little to any factual evidence to strengthen his claim. If I had to rate the author’s bias out of 10, I would give him a 2/10, because of his credentials…

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    The Toulmin Method uses data, claims, and warrants to prove a principal. The warrant is at the center of the reasoning and connects the data with the claim, and is usually the generalization the is used to explain how the claim and data are connected. The warrant can be views as the thinking that lead the writer on to the opinion that they hold. V. Deductive and Inductive Reasoning Inductive Reasoning can be viewed as reasoning…

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    While he uses a passionate argument, his debate lacks in several areas. For starters, Dole uses two fallacies within the first two paragraphs: hasty generalization and ad hominem. By stating “After 213 years, it is long past time to give our flag the kind of protection the Founding Fathers expected, and the kind of protection the American people are demanding” (Dole 254) Senator Dole is making two abstract…

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    a protected, white, middle class world, and they expect everything to be safe”, as wells as “many of these other women… are sexually repressed white girls coming out of pampered homes” (Paglia, On Date Rape 144). Next, Paglia continues her hasty generalizations by stating “notice how it is rarely Black or Hispanic women who are making a fuss about this in the media or on campus – they come from cultures that are fully sexual, and they are fully realistic about the dangers of life” (On Date Rape…

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    Peggy McIntosh, author of the essay "White Privilege", gave a compelling argument and interview on the situation of race and how it plays in society. She discussed how white people don't address their "whiteness", the 5 impediments of US ideology, and the disadvantages of being a race other than white. Her argument is quite compelling and interesting to listen to, however, she used logical fallacies, making her argument weak. First, she addresses how white people don't accept their…

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    inside a metaphorical cave and are blinded to the truth of the world. By writing this, Plato hoped that people would realize how they are blinded and will transition to the open world. The author’s use of scare tactics, stacking the deck, and hasty generalization are effective and ineffective because they set the reader towards a certain way of thinking that both achieved and prevented people from seeing his point. This article is about how people are hidden from the truth of the world. The…

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    100, an adolescent will smoke to know when they would want to quit. Kruzel also uses the term “most adolescents”, this is a type of propaganda known as hasty generalization. Hasty generalization is a conclusion made based on a small group rather than looking at an average statistics of a situation. This is easily acknowledged as a generalization because young adults are known for being trouble makers. Not all young…

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    better academically at Cal Prep when they don't have a garden to tend, but many other factors could play into such a large difference in grades. However, considering that only two schools are being compared, this could also be considered a hasty generalization. In addition to the above-mentioned fallacies, this one example is also a false dilemma because it is stated in a way that makes it seem like schools only options are to either do poorly with a garden or do well without…

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    do not think the argument is logically convincing because of three critical flaws. First of all, the author makes a hasty generalization. He tries to make a specific case a general fact without offering any representative evidence. To elaborate, the Waymarsh University is not representative of all universities. Moreover, no further information is offered to support the generalization. Thus, the evidence…

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    order to pinpoint man’s flaws and reveal the fallacies of society. Through his revelation, Twain beseeches his audience to analyze their own morals when taking into account the problems that exist in the human world. Given the broad scope of his generalization, Twain intended his piece for the general public as a whole, not excluding any specific group due…

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